Video: Superchunk’s “Digging for Something”

Here’s proof that every once in a while you can meet your heroes and they turn out to be just as great as you’d hoped. When my friend, comedy writer (and sometimes VF.com contributor) Scott Jacobson, asked me to come down to North Carolina to be in a Superchunk video, I didn’t hesitate. The band was gearing up to release their first new record in nine years (Majesty Shredding, out tomorrow) and Jacobson, who’s friends with the band and also, like them, a North Carolina native, was slated to direct the video for their first single, “Digging For Something.” When everything was said and done, it was all the fun I’d hoped for—I worked with a super-nice band, a terrific director, and BONUS: it’s a rocking song.

A humorous (and fictitious!) account of what the band have been up to since their last album in 2001, the video for “Digging For Something” debuts today. Dig it!